So the pools will be open from 3pm to 7pm weekdays and 1pm to 5pm on weekends until labor day. I see that they are scheduling the pool hours around school. That is nice, but what about locals who don't go to school, or are they just not important.

noblewolf:So the pools will be open from 3pm to 7pm weekdays and 1pm to 5pm on weekends until labor day. I see that they are scheduling the pool hours around school. That is nice, but what about locals who don't go to school, or are they just not important.

Presumably they are resposible adults with jobs that keep them out of trouble and maybe allow them to get memberships at privately run pools?

noblewolf:So the pools will be open from 3pm to 7pm weekdays and 1pm to 5pm on weekends until labor day. I see that they are scheduling the pool hours around school. That is nice, but what about locals who don't go to school, or are they just not important.

See, I'm about to head to my gym, where after an hour of exercise I will relax in a hot spa followed by a dip in a chilled pool until my core temp goes down below 98. This is all indoors, air conditioned. And my multi-club plan only comes to $40 a month, much cheaper than maintaining a pool of my own outdoors.

And because people in this area are actually kind of prudish they have a hard time with the locker room and being naked, so very few people actually use the pool. Unlike your public pools which are teeming with your unwashed masses.

noblewolf:So the pools will be open from 3pm to 7pm weekdays and 1pm to 5pm on weekends until labor day. I see that they are scheduling the pool hours around school. That is nice, but what about locals who don't go to school, or are they just not important.

noblewolf:So the pools will be open from 3pm to 7pm weekdays and 1pm to 5pm on weekends until labor day. I see that they are scheduling the pool hours around school. That is nice, but what about locals who don't go to school, or are they just not important.

Basically they're just doing their best to keep the pools open past the date they were scheduled and budgeted to close, despite having absolutely no money to do so. There's only so much they can do here.

SnakeLee:They have huge budget cuts, won't increase taxes because SoCal is right wing, but want all the services that a tax paying society would provide

LA is right wing? LA? That may have been true a few decades ago, and may still be true in some of the suburbs, but that wasn't even true when I left the state in 1996. Looking at the last party affiliation breakdown I could find (2003) it was about 51% Dem and 26% Rep and the rest declined to state with a smattering of third parties.

silly new englander, you see, in the south we respect the covenants and institution of marriage and use these women in the way a Mexican might use a pinata, if they were to fark it and then not marry it.

silly new englander, you see, in the south we respect the covenants and institution of marriage and use these women in the way a Mexican might use a pinata, if they were to fark it and then not marry it.

Eirik:SnakeLee: They have huge budget cuts, won't increase taxes because SoCal is right wing, but want all the services that a tax paying society would provide

LA is right wing? LA? That may have been true a few decades ago, and may still be true in some of the suburbs, but that wasn't even true when I left the state in 1996. Looking at the last party affiliation breakdown I could find (2003) it was about 51% Dem and 26% Rep and the rest declined to state with a smattering of third parties.

Hardly a right wing enclave.

The wealthier burbs who send in the most tax dollars are almost all conservative

I've been to a public beach in NJ once where they were charging for access. It was easy enough to avoid the money collectors and get on it for free.

Los Angeles is a huge city, stretching over 20 miles inland in some places like the Glassell Park neighborhood mentioned in the article. It's not feasible for everyone to get out to the beach, and for those who can afford it, there are still all the traffic problems known to LA.

Temperatures do drop down low enough in the winter for people to be wearing sweaters, or even jackets in some places. It would probably make more sense to close the pools in late September or so. Hell, I've even been to the beach in Santa Monica in October... though while swimming, my feet did go numb after about a half hour.

Eirik:SnakeLee: They have huge budget cuts, won't increase taxes because SoCal is right wing, but want all the services that a tax paying society would provide

LA is right wing? LA? That may have been true a few decades ago, and may still be true in some of the suburbs, but that wasn't even true when I left the state in 1996. Looking at the last party affiliation breakdown I could find (2003) it was about 51% Dem and 26% Rep and the rest declined to state with a smattering of third parties.

I've been to a public beach in NJ once where they were charging for access. It was easy enough to avoid the money collectors and get on it for free.

Los Angeles is a huge city, stretching over 20 miles inland in some places like the Glassell Park neighborhood mentioned in the article. It's not feasible for everyone to get out to the beach, and for those who can afford it, there are still all the traffic problems known to LA.

Temperatures do drop down low enough in the winter for people to be wearing sweaters, or even jackets in some places. It would probably make more sense to close the pools in late September or so. Hell, I've even been to the beach in Santa Monica in October... though while swimming, my feet did go numb after about a half hour.

My farking lord you people are wimps. When I go down there in December I wear my shorts and t-shirts and cry because it's so damn warm.

intelligent comment below:Eirik: SnakeLee: They have huge budget cuts, won't increase taxes because SoCal is right wing, but want all the services that a tax paying society would provide

LA is right wing? LA? That may have been true a few decades ago, and may still be true in some of the suburbs, but that wasn't even true when I left the state in 1996. Looking at the last party affiliation breakdown I could find (2003) it was about 51% Dem and 26% Rep and the rest declined to state with a smattering of third parties.

Hardly a right wing enclave.

The wealthier burbs who send in the most tax dollars are almost all conservative

The last presidential election showed Obama winning the county with 72% of the vote, and the City of LA has more than half the population of the total county. What enclave of conservatives exist in that environment that can politically withstand a demand for higher taxes?

On the state level, the Dems outnumber the Reps by 2-1 and the current Gov is Jerry Brown-D.

Has anyone ever seen the types of people that patronize municipal pools? Good god, the pool water is the closest thing most of those people have see to a bath in months. Wouldn't go near there if you paid me, yuck! Only thing worse than that is the Water Park at Six Flags where they have to load the water with so much bleach and chlorine that you come out looking like Michael Jackson.

Eirik:The last presidential election showed Obama winning the county with 72% of the vote, and the City of LA has more than half the population of the total county. What enclave of conservatives exist in that environment that can politically withstand a demand for higher taxes?

On the state level, the Dems outnumber the Reps by 2-1 and the current Gov is Jerry Brown-D.

/Gave up on SoCal 15 years ago.

For starters, Presidential vote in 2008 really means nothing, any idiot with a brain on their shoulders knew not to vote for the GOP.

Second you might want to look at the split in local representatives, not take overall California state assemblymen and claim that represents the SoCal area.

Third, Brown is a conservative Democrat in a state known for voting in Republican governors. SoCal is socially liberal but still very conservative, that ties back to the boom in defense contractor spending in the 1980s and the heavy reliance on finance to keep the economy going today